The Next Step for the Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Making Mental Health a Priority
The criminal justice system in the United States was not created to treat mentally ill people. Despite this fact, the number of seriously mentally ill people in prisons and jails now exceeds the number in state psychiatric hospitals by tenfold. At the same time, the epidemic of mass incarceration...
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University of Oregon
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20491 |